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IT was with a most unwilling mind and an unhappy heart that Mary began / her third week at school. In the first place she could not bear to tear / herself away from all that was going on at the new house. She wanted to / have a hand in the dear delights of home-making. She wanted to poke the / camp-fire, and dabble in the paste, and watch the walls grow fresh and / clean as the paper spread over the old patches. The smell of the fresh / paint drew her, and gave her a feeling that there were all sorts of / delightful possibilities in this region, yet unexplored.
In the second place, life in the new school was a grievous burden, / because the boys, seeing how easily she was teased, found their chief / pleasure in annoying her. She was a trusting little soul, ready to / nibble the bait that any trap offered.